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Table 1 Comparisons between fraudulent and new datasets in Multan, and national demographic statistics

From: Fraud in a population-based study of headache: prevention, detection and correction

  

Fraudulent data (%) n = 842

New data (%) n = 800

FBS data (%)

Gender

Male

70.1

43.4

49.7

 

Female

29.9

56.6

50.3

Age (yr)

18-29

16.9

29.5

36.4

 

30-39

6.5

32.3

25.4

 

40-49

64.8

20.6

20.5

 

50-59

10.8

12.3

13.1

 

60-65

0.7

5.4

4.6

Marital status

Married

90.5

82.5

n/a

Unmarried

8.8

14.9

n/a

 

Divorced

0.1

1.9

n/a

Headache % (n)

No headache

27.9 (235)

13.3 (106)

 

Migraine

51.4 (433)

25.4 (203)

 
 

 male

 70.7 (306)

 32.0 (65)

 
 

 female

 29.3 (127)

 68.0 (138)

 
 

TTH

20.0 (168)

46.3 (370)

 
 

Headache on ≥15 days/month

0.1 (1)

12.4 (99)

 
 

MOH

0.1 (1)

2.0 (16)

 
 

Undetermined

0.5 (4)

0.8 (6)

 
  1. FBS: Federal Bureau of Statistics data from 1999 survey extrapolated to 2006 [14]; TTH: tension-type headache; MOH: probable medication-overuse headache; n/a: not available.